S.I. No. 103/1940 - Defence Forces (Requisitions of Emergency) Order, 1940.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1940. No. 103.

DEFENCE FORCES (REQUISITIONS OF EMERGENCY) ORDER, 1940.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of section 180 of the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (No. 30 of 1923), (as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution), that the Government may at any time or times by order under their hand declare that a state of emergency exists in Ireland, or in any part or parts (to be specified in such order) thereof, and may by the same order authorise any officer not below the rank of Commandant (to be named in such order) commanding any part of the Forces in any part of Ireland in which a state of emergency is by such order declared to exist to issue a requisition under the said section 180 (thereinafter referred to as a requisition of emergency), and it is enacted by sub-section (8) of the said section 180 that whenever a proclamation ordering the Reserve to be called out on permanent service is in force, the order of the Government authorising an officer to issue a requisition of emergency may authorise him to extend such requisition to the provision of carriages, animals, vessels, aircraft, food, forage and stores for the purpose of being purchased, as well as of being hired, on behalf of the State :

AND WHEREAS a proclamation ordering the Reserve to be called out on permanent service is in force :

NOW, THEREFORE, the Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 180 of the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (No. 30 of 1923), (as adapted in consequence of the enactment of the Constitution) and of every and any other power them in this behalf enabling, hereby order as follows, that is to say :—

1.—This Order may be cited as the Defence Forces (Requisitions of Emergency) Order, 1940.

2.—The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3.—It is hereby declared that a state of emergency exists in Ireland.

4.—Each of the officers named in the Schedule hereto is hereby authorised to issue a requisition under section 180 of the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (No. 30 of 1923), andeach of the said officers is hereby authorised to extend such requisition to the provision of carriages, animals, vessels, aircraft, food, forage and stores for the purpose of being purchased, as well as of being hired, on behalf of the State.

5.—The Defence Forces (Requisitions of Emergency) Order, 1939 (Statutory Rules and Orders No. 222 of 1939), is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE.

Major-General Joseph Aloysius Sweeney,

Commanding troops quartered within the Western Command.

Colonel William Hoolan,

Commanding troops quartered within the Eastern Command.

Colonel Michael Joseph Costello,

Commanding troops quartered within the Southern Command.

Colonel James O'Higgins,

Commanding troops quartered within the Curragh Command.

Given under the Official Seal of the Government this 16th day of April, 1940.